How Long to Read In the Mean Time

How Long Does it Take to Read In the Mean Time?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 51 minutes to read In the Mean Time by Erin Murrah-Mandril

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which transferred more than a third of Mexico's territory to the United States, deferred full U.S. citizenship for Mexican Americans but promised, "in the mean time," to protect their property and liberty. Erin Murrah-Mandril demonstrates that the U.S. government deployed a colonization of time in the Southwest to insure political and economic underdevelopment in the region and to justify excluding Mexican Americans from narratives of U.S. progress. In In the Mean Time, Murrah-Mandril contends that Mexican American authors challenged modern conceptions of empty, homogenous, linear, and progressive time to contest U.S. colonization. Taking a cue from Latina/o and borderlands spatial theories, Murrah-Mandril argues that time, like space, is a socially constructed, ideologically charged medium of power in the Southwest. In the Mean Time draws on literature, autobiography, political documents, and historical narratives composed between 1870 and 1940 to examine the way U.S. colonization altered time in the borderlands. Rather than reinforce the colonial time structure, early Mexican American authors exploited the internal contradictions of Manifest Destiny and U.S. progress to resist domination and situate themselves within the shifting political, economic, and historical present. Read as decolonial narratives, the Mexican American cultural productions examined in this book also offer a new way of understanding Latina/o literary history.

How long is In the Mean Time?

In the Mean Time by Erin Murrah-Mandril is 226 pages long, and a total of 57,856 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read In the Mean Time Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 16 minutes to read In the Mean Time aloud.

What Reading Level is In the Mean Time?

In the Mean Time is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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